It sure feels like Padres president and CEO Tom Garfinkel wins more often on Twitter than his team does on the field. The man was on it, and Padres fans are going to miss his good humor and accessibility, though maybe not as much as they miss the team's sudden ability to win ballgames.

Garfinkel got social media, using Twitter to give away tickets and engage fans in a variety of ways. So what happens to all that goodwill now?

One of his last tweets as the public face of the organization came three Saturdays ago when Garfinkel retweeted one fan's hopeful message for his 3,700-odd followers to see.

June 22

@TomGarfinkel The team is really coming together. We fans have genuine reason for hope. It's a great time to be a #Padres fan.

But after that post, the Padres went on a 2-14 slide and before you could say "going, going, gone," Garfinkel was just that: The team said Tuesday he had resigned from the post he assumed in 2012 at the end of Jeff Moorad's regime.

Ron Fowler, who helps lead the team's new ownership group, will at least temporarily replace Garfinkel, becoming the team's eighth CEO in 12 years. Garfinkel had been with the Padres since 2009 and may have been on borrowed time since Moorad left, but his departure comes at an interesting time, to say the least. The team had lost 10 straight games and was hosting a social media night at the ballpark for those lucky fans who ponied up $45 for a T-shirt, a pre-game Q-and-A with team brass and a ticket to Tuesday's game. Garfinkel was on a lot of people's minds, obviously.

@LobShots and the unbolded 1

Twitter being Twitter, news of Garfinkel's resignation zipped through San Diego quickly and before too long, Garfinkel had dropped "President and Chief Executive Officer, San Diego Padres Baseball Club" from his bio on the site. In its place? Nothing. And just like that, three months after Garfinkel became embroiled in a bit of controversy over his comments about pitcher Zack Greinke's actions in that now-infamous Dogers-Padres brawl, he was again in the news uncomfortably.

Now he's out of work and looking for a fresh start somewhere. He's fallen below 3,700 followers on Twitter. And he hasn't tweeted since the Fourth of July. But sports are full of comeback stories and odds are he'll be back, at least on Twitter, and better than ever. Thanks for putting yourself out there, Tom.

Reaction to the resignation varied.

One fan did some math about Garfinkel's resignation, the introduction of a touted prospect and the team's long-planned tweetup that night and came up with a number greater than 10, the number of games the team had lost in a row heading into Tuesday's tilt with the Rockies.

Garfinkel resigns, Renfroe to be introduced, Padres Social Media Night. Yeah, nothing designed to distract from a 10-game losing streak.